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cows is 25 dollars ; and their value when turned off in the 

 spring is estimated at 15 dollars. He fats annually about 1000 

 lbs. of pork. 



The returns which he has given me of some of his crops are 

 as follows : English hay 75 tons, of which he sells about 40 

 tons ; salt hay G tons, fresh meadow hay 35 tons; pease sold green, 

 275 bushels : potatoes, 1000 bs. ; onions, 200 bs. ; beets, 250 bs. ; 

 ruta baga, 400 bs. ; winter apples, 350 barrels ; cider, 10 bar- 

 rels ; asparagus, squashes, and melons, 500 dollars' worth ; horse- 

 radish, 100 dollars; celery, 150 dollars; five acres of cabbages, 

 savoy and drumhead. These are principally drumhead, which 

 are sold to coasters and ships and bring from four to seven dol- 

 lars per hundred ; the price at the present time is ten dollars 

 per hundred. His sales of cucumbers for pickling have this 

 year amounted to ^1000. There are many small items which 

 it is unnecessary to particularize. 



Mr. Hill has usually six or seven acres in squashes and mel- 

 ons, and one acre in asparagus. His melons are planted in the 

 rows of his pease. The pease are sowed in rows five feet apart. 

 The melons in every other row of pease, in hills ten feet apart. 

 Tlie hills for the melons are manured with two good shovelfuls 

 of manure when the pease are sown, though the melons are not 

 planted until some weeks after the pease. 



The cultivation of asparagus was formerly a laborious and 

 expensive affair. It has ceased to be so. Mr. Hill deems his 

 lightest and most sandy soil best suited to this crop. The land 

 after being well tilled, is laid out in furrows or trenches, three 

 feet apart and about a foot deep ; the plants are then set in the 

 trenches ; and the land kept clean and well manured. In this 

 way it is as easily cultivated as Indian corn, and is a very profi- 

 table crop. Horse-radish is cultivated much in the same way; 

 the land requires very high manuring, and the plants are set 

 out by cuttings in narrow rows. As the, root is taken up, this 

 requires a frequent planting. I have known two square rods of 

 horse-radish to produce 60 dollars in one season in the market. 



Mr. Hill's cabbages are set out in rows three feet apart, and 



